This is what I don't see. Corn came to North America even later than to middle America, yet the better part of two whole continents built flourishing civilizations on corn and a couple of other vegetables (those were the dietary basis, though of course they ate other things. Much of the rest of SA built theirs on potatoes. And per the "1491" theorists, who give good evidence, these cultures were not far behind Europe in just their material sophistication and population numbers.
When I say "built on corn" I mean just that. Corn was for the Hopi (I know this second hand, since my brother is close to the Hopi) what an icon is to the Orthodox, or perhaps even what icons and the Eucharist are to the Orthodox. You don't do that if your diet is making you chronically sick for hundreds of years. There are 24 Federally recognized tribes in NM; all of these (the Navajo by trade) ate diets largely composed of maize. On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Grant Petersen <eatbacondont...@gmail.com> wrote: But carbs (in mass qty) came to Africans and Native Americans and Mexicans and some others much later, and they have not had time to adapt. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
